Performance QA Engineer

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We are seeking a talented Performance QA Engineer to work on Qualys’ next-generation Platform & Security Applications. Working with a team of engineers and architects, you will be responsible for defining performance test framework, generate test data to the required scale, test against the performance benchmark set, find scale issue and propose solutions. This is a great opportunity to be an integral part of team building Qualys’ next generation microservices based technology platform processing, leverage open-source technologies, and work on challenging and business-impacting projects. 

Responsibilities:

• Proficient in Performance testing tools like JMeter
• Manage planning and creating automated performance tests, executing tests, and results to measure performance, scalability, stability, and reliability.
• Expertise in Test Planning, Test Estimation, Test Strategy, Workload Design, Test Cases Design, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Defect Management.
• Experience in Application Monitoring Tools like AppDynamics.
• Experience in Applications like ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Grafana, Kafka.
• Hands-on experience in writing and executing performance test scenarios for complex systems.
• Hands-on experience with performance test simulations, performance analysis, performance tuning, performance monitoring in a microservices environment
• Perform analysis of performance issues in Pre-production and/or Production environments.
• Hands- on experience in analyzing the performance results - Capture/Analyze/Interpret technical data - performance metrics from application, database, OS, and Network.
• Demonstrated ability to capture key metrics, create accurate status reports and effectively communicate to the stake holders.
• Experience in any cloud environment, Docker/Kubernetes.
• Analyze the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, Network usage, Garbage Collection to verify the performance of the applications.
• Identifying memory leakage, connection issues & Bottleneck problem in the application.
• Generate performance graphs, session reports, and other related documentation required for validation and analysis.
• Publish results and provide appropriate signoff. Prepare detailed status reports and monitor all defects and issues.
• Good understanding of basic DB tuning, application server tuning and common issues around performance and scalability.
• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent communication and time management skills.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3-5 years of work experience in the field of performance testing and test automation of multi-tier Enterprise and/or Cloud, SaaS applications
• Experience in web applications user interface and RESTful web services testing both at functional and non-functional level
• Knowledge of Java, Python, NodeJS that could be used in automation frameworks
• Experience in writing automation tools/framework (Selenium, JMeter)
• Understanding of XML, XSD, JSON, REST and SOAP and demonstrated experience with web services APIs
• Working knowledge of Databases like Oracle and Cassandra
• Good exposure to Linux platform